Then, just a few days later, Wired put up my September column, calling for an armed uprisingan organized set of protests against abusive Terms of Service from the likes of Facebook and Cisco. I strongly believe that the constraints of our services' TOS policies are far, far more important than the insular vagaries of API policy that the tech community likes to debate.

For both of the Wired columns, I'll publish DVD extras (links and source materials) soon, as I've done for my earlier pieces.

In the New York Times, Jenna Wortham explored the Joy of Missing Out, an exploration keying off of my post a few weeks ago. It's a really wonderful to see such a thoughtful expansion on these ideas, and I enjoyed recording the accompanying video where we talked about the inspiration behind the story: My son Malcolm. (The story marks his first-ever media appearance. I couldn't be more proud.)

Speaking of recording interviews, I had a blast getting back in touch with Brent Leary the other day, and our conversation turned into an interview transcript which you can find on the Small Business Trends site or on Business Insider, though the former has audio of the full interview, if your'e interested. Naturally, after we got done talking about blogs and tech, we started talking about Prince and funk music in general.

Oh hey, remember when we all were offended by Popchips making a racist ad, but then I was all optimistic and tried to encourage them to do the right thing? Well, fool me twice, shame on me: They're at it again. It's a horrible, horrible feeling to think that the CEO of a company has really understood and tried to change his company's culture, only to find out he actually doesn't care if he's exploiting offensive stereotypes as long as he's selling more snack chips.